Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quarter-century ago, they played a game of nuclear chicken, bringing the planet terrifyingly close to destruction. Last week in Moscow, many of the same men who were involved in the Cuban missile crisis met to discuss the confrontation. In a form of diplomatic glasnost, senior Americans, Soviets and Cubans for the first time traded candid observations on the drama that had the world holding its breath for 13 perilous days in October...
...M.T.P.), a leftist group committed to social change that was formed in 1986 and until now had stopped short of violence. Earlier this month M.T.P. seemed to embrace a more radical agenda, and several key figures have been linked to a defunct ultra-left-wing revolutionary army with strong Cuban and Nicaraguan connections...
Ortega insisted that the ranks of Cuban military advisers in Nicaragua, estimated by Washington to number some 8,000, have been thinned. He said the number of Cubans has fallen from "hundreds, not thousands" to "dozens." Further reductions, he suggested, would be tied to the departure of several hundred U.S. military personnel in Honduras and El Salvador. That amounts to no small condition, but the continued presence of U.S. advisers in Central American countries that are allies of Washington would also be prohibited under the regional peace plan devised by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez and signed...
...midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union was poised for war with the United States, panelists revealed at a conference last week in Moscow. But today, President Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev are on the verge of a brave new world of global relations...
...could say that constructive engagement was an excuse for a stand-pat policy, a do-nothing policy," says Thompson Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson. But he says the plan has allowed the U.S. to mediate the recent Southern African peace settlement, which ties the withdrawal of Cuban troops in Angola with Namibian independence from South Africa...